How A Local Author Turned Years Of False Starts Into A Six-Book Career

Ever wonder what it really takes to finish a novel while working a full-time job and raising a family? We sit down with local thriller author Eric P. Bishop to unpack the honest, unromantic, and deeply rewarding grind behind Drexel, his newest release in the Omega Group series. From years of abandoned drafts to the day he typed “The End” in Yosemite, Eric shares the habits, tradeoffs, and mindset shifts that turned a private goal into a six-book career.

We dive into the craft and the business. Eric breaks down why most of his books land between 80–100k words, how he builds pace and tension, and why vivid settings—from Hendersonville’s Main Street cameos to sunlit Mediterranean coastlines—make thrillers feel real. He explains the difference between traditional and indie publishing, the tough math behind pricing and royalties, and the non-negotiable reality that authors must market their work. If you love Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn, you’ll appreciate how Eric leans into “faction,” blending real-world geopolitics with tight character arcs and authentic tradecraft.

We also tackle the future of creative work. Eric has added explicit language to his copyright pages disallowing AI model training on his books, and we talk frankly about AI’s promise and risk for writers, musicians, and readers. It’s a practical, grounded take: tools can help, but voice, texture, and lived experience are what keep readers turning pages. Along the way, we connect these lessons to the way we serve our real estate clients—showing up, doing the unglamorous work, and building trust one step at a time.

Ready to explore Drexel or discover the Body Man series? Find Eric’s books on Amazon or visit ericpbishop.com for links and updates. If this conversation sparked something, share it with a friend, subscribe for more author spotlights and market insights, and leave a quick review to help others find the show.

Transcript

Opening And Market Snapshot

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello, friends. Thank you so much for being here. This is the George Real Estate Group Podcast, which is a production of our live weekly radio shows hosted on multiple radio stations here in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The George Real Estate Group serves Western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina, and it is a privilege to share positive news about our local real estate market and community. Thanks so much for subscribing. And of course, if you have any real estate questions or if we can help you in any way, be sure to reach out. Visit us at George Real Estate Group Radio dot com for more information. Good morning and welcome to the George Real Estate Group radio broadcasts every week. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you're doing well. Thank you so much for joining us. Again, grateful to be here with you. Uh we're going to talk about a lot of things today. And one of the things I love uh each week is having uh guests join us on the radio. I'm gonna introduce you here just to a second to one of our special guests that we've had on the radio before, uh somewhat of a local celebrity and uh the author, and we're gonna introduce uh our guests here in just a minute. But before we do that, uh we're so grateful to serve the community through real estate. Uh we this is my 21st year in the real estate industry, and my joke is you know, overnight success has taken you know 20 plus years of showing up every day. And uh we serve all of West North Carolina and the upstate South Carolina. So if you're thinking of buying, selling, or investing in real estate, we'd love to have the conversation. There's no pressure, there's no cost, there's no obligation. You can give us a call at 828-393-0134. 828-393-0134. You can find us online at realestatebygreg.com. We also podcast all of our radio shows. You can find it on your favorite uh podcast platform and just glad to connect with you. We have uh, you know, follow us on social media, Facebook and Instagram, and just stop by our office and uh call us 828-393-0134. Just a quick snapshot on the market. Everybody's asking, you know, it's so funny when people are like, what do you do? Um well, I'm in real estate. Oh, you're in real estate. I'm so sorry. But the fascinating thing is we had one of our best years ever in 2025, and the market here locally continues to be strong. It's all relative and it's all perspective. The market continues to be strong. We actually had an 8%, Henderson County had an 8% increase in the number of properties, uh single-family homes sold in 2025 versus 2026. The inventory levels remain low. Uh, and it's interesting that even though we saw saw more homes hitting the market in 2025 than the previous year, we also had more homes sell. So it was a wash in the sense of the uh available homes and also the demand. And so prices actually held uh somewhat flat uh in Henderson County. And so the market is the market, but we know life happens, therefore real estate happens. One of the other big pieces of news, which I've shared before on the radio, is is there uh for the first time since 2021, more homeowners have an interest rate with their mortgage over six percent than they do than number of mortgage holders under three percent. So we the holdouts, the those that said I'll never sell interest rates, I have my home and the you know two or three or four percent interest rates, life happens, therefore real estate happens. So that's uh that's something we continue to see in. So we have consultations every single day. There's no pressure, there's no cost, there's no obligation. Whether it's your personal home, uh it could be commercial real estate, it could be land, it could be an investment property, it could be your uh, you know, maybe it's uh you know, family land, it could be whatever the situation is, you know, we do a no pressure, no cost, no obligation, confidential consultation about the real estate market and how that might play into your particular property. And and we work with uh state attorneys and we work with uh trust attorneys, we work with financial advisors and and tax strategists and and attorneys. I mean, we have an incredible team that we work together in concert to ultimately to help you with your real estate uh needs. And so, you know, I I've shared that uh you know, I'm a big reader. I love reading, and I also love uh, you know, our community, and whether it's our local community, local businesses, uh it could be uh also our nonprofits, and and you know, over the years, uh you know, just grateful to have different guests uh join us on the radio. And this morning, it's not his first time on the radio with us, but Eric Bishop is a local author and a personal friend of mine, and you know, he is uh known for fast-paced political and espionage thrillers uh and grew up in Connecticut, but you know, you your passion for writing has uh evolved and and and Eric, welcome to the radio. I'll just go ahead and welcome you and and thank you for joining us this morning.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

Well, thank you for having me. I time three or maybe four. I'm I'm losing losing track of time.

The Commitment It Takes To Finish

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Well, and you've had an incredible uh we've had these conversations about writing and and and your passion and you you're you love storytelling and and you are uh you know the the writing piece is something that you just you've you've I joke about, you know, I'm an overnight success that's you know taking twenty years of showing up every day. I mean you are you are writing uh almost every day. I mean it's and I want to go back and before and we want to talk about the the the body man series, your also your the Omega Group series, I mean the different series that you have, and and you have a ex you know, we're here this morning because of a new release, correct, which we want to talk about, but let's before we get into the books, let's talk about I mean there's so many people out there say, Oh, I I'd love to write a book, but I'm gonna write a book one day, or I'm gonna put that in my book. I mean, like, right, I mean, book when people it's a people relate to but but very rarely do people actually follow through with it.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

Correct. A lot of people start the books, finishing the books is another story, absolutely. But um, yeah, a lot of people say that. Hey, I want to write a book, I want to do that, and they never do it. And that's not a that's not a knock at them, it's nothing negative, but it takes discipline, it takes sacrifice, and it's a it's a commitment, unless you just want to start it and not complete it. If you want to start it and finish it, I always tell people you're gonna have to give something up to get something, and that's life in general, uh, but especially for writing. So you're gonna have to either stop watching Netflix or, you know, maybe not golf as much, or whatever, whatever your hobbies might be, you're gonna have to do something. And uh to get that writing done, you're gonna have to give up something to then do something in the form of writing.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

It is a significant commitment of time.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

Yeah, it is, it really is.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

And let's go back. I mean, you've worked in corporate America and you currently work in corporate America, and you're you you're when did you first start writing uh like consistently? I mean, like when did that happen?

SPEAKER_03 7:07

I started in after college, actually, but I did not stick with it. So I I've told the story on my own podcast and different interviews over the years is I have two folders on my hard drive of my computer or on a backup drive. Uh one's called Books, which is all current projects from the last 11 years or so, and the other one's called Old Books. And so all these projects I started after college for 10, 15 years and never did anything with. So they they might be a page, they might be 50 pages.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

But so my these were the the beginnings of ideas that you had.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Correct. Yeah, totally different stories, nothing that ever became what my six published novels are now. But these were kind of the inklings to get creative. But but my consistent theme in all that is I never finished anything. So it wasn't until I was in my mid-30s, I was probably starting my midlife crisis a little early, and I said, you know, I'm working for corporate America, I wasn't really happy with the job I had at the time, and so what am I doing with my life? I said, man, I want to write a I want to write a novel. I want to actually get one done. Um so that was 2014. I I started probably planning it in 2013, and then I actually wrote in 2014 and finished my first novel in about four months, which is pretty quick when you have little kids and a full-time job and all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

For for context, the novel is like how many tens of thousands of words is depends on your vi on the style, what you're writing, whether it's crime, whether it's romance, thrillers, or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

In generally speaking, most people would probably say a full-length novel has got to be at least probably 60,000 words.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

60,000 words.

First Novels, Yosemite Finish Line

SPEAKER_03 8:37

Up to, I mean, some people write 200,000 words, massive fantasy novels, the t you know, J.R. Tolkien and stuff. Um I try to stick to 80 to 100. I think anything over a hundred is getting you probably can cut out a bunch of stuff, unless you're Tom Clancy, but um there's not too many Tom Clancy's left, I don't think. So but yeah, it's so it's a commitment. So it's it's an hour or two a night for months, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

What I heard you say is you it was a commitment to yourself. Yes and you were writing for yourself. Yep. And and you followed it. Must have been significant. I mean, you followed through with it.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

I did.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

Regardless of it being published or not. Correct. You wrote a book.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Yeah, and I've and actually ironically, the first one I finished, um, which is did not get published, it might see the light of day now that I have my own indie uh publishing press. But uh that book I actually finished in California in Yosemite. Uh I was there for basically the better part of a day. I had one day to write there, and I started for I drove in early, early in the morning. I started off riding at the base of Lower Falls until my butt hurt. Went to the cafe to charge my computer back, have some food, and then I ended up finishing up into the mountains. Um and I literally finished, I think around 5 30 or 6, wrote the words the end, and I had to drive I had to had about 30 minutes to have a cigar and celebrate and scream and cry and all that, and then I had to get to home. I said to catch the red eye to San Francisco that night. So symbolic. It was a pretty amazing experience. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

That's incredible. And and you did it. I did it. And then this one's never been that one's the one you finish has never been published. Correct.

SPEAKER_03 10:13

Actually, the one that we're here to talk about today was the backstory for that book. It was kind of where that main character came from. So that this story had a c uh that we're gonna talk about today had a completely different title. I wrote it, uh started it in 2015. And I um yeah, I just uh that one's it sat on a hard drive for a long time until I was finally able to say, you know what, there's there's something here. Let me go back and kind of fix what I did. And uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

So the book you just you just had a release this week, right? Was it Tuesday?

Introducing Drexel And The Omega Group

SPEAKER_03 10:47

Tuesday, yeah. Tuesday was uh book six. So it's the third book in the Omega Group series. So I have the Body Man series, which has three books out, and I have the Omega Group series, totally different characters, um, same time period, um, but different cast of characters.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

But the this current book is uh is background to that very first book you wrote.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Yeah, so it's the third in the series, but the f so the first two books kind of explore who the Omega Group is, and especially um Troy Evans, uh Captain Troy Evans, who's in charge of this elite group. And this is his backstory. Why did he follow this path? Because he originally was on the same path as his father. His father was actually a uh special agent in charge of a field office for the FBI. He was going to do something similar and surpass his dad. Maybe he'd be the director one day, maybe he'd get to Washington and kind of, you know, clean up the place. Um, and then the story Drexel happens, which totally changes his life's path.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

The trajectory of his life.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Yes, correct.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

This is amazing. And so again, the body man series has three books, and then the Omega Group series has this is the third book. Is there more planned for this?

SPEAKER_03 12:01

Yes, m for both, for both series. Um I'm actually working on the fourth body man book now, which is called Downfall. Um I'm looking uh it's I'm behind. I'm always behind. So I hope to be done by late uh early spring, late late winter on that one. That'll be book four, and then I'm gonna actually kind of take a little break in the sense of I'm gonna actually do a brand new I've actually started it, but I'm gonna go to a completely different series or completely different book with different characters. Very um it's it's a high concept. It's one that I hope is maybe puts my stamp on things that can, you know, maybe maybe get up there with the with the echelon.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Well you mentioned uh Tom Clancy and and your books are known for this blend of Tom Cl Clancy, uh Vince Flynn, uh like high authenticity, uh military political texture. I mean, like these things, and then you know, the the the blend with the strong character dynamics, right, between like experienced and rookie agents working under extreme pressure. How appropriate these series are. I gotta just, you know, you know, I don't know if anybody had in their bingo card of 2026 the uh Venezuelan uh president being uh you know uh uh uh what's I don't know. Extracted.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

I mean yeah, uh very audacious uh thing to do to a president of a country. So fascinating, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:26

And again, this is you know, this is why these books are so you know marketable and people I mean this is like the where the the uh lines are blurred right now. You would in reality between like what's going on in the world and what we've read and what you see in in uh you know fictional political thrillers.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

I think Brad Thor, he probably he might not have uh owned the term, but I've heard him over the years say faction. He writes faction, so it's a blend of fiction and fact.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Because using well, I mean, I'm also gonna bring in a recent blockbuster movie that was uh have you seen uh The House of Dynamite?

SPEAKER_03 14:08

I did, and I hated the ending.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Don't give it away, all right.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

I won't give it away, but I was like, seriously, folks. I I think maybe after a little hindsight I know why they ended it the way they did, but I I was uh but the the concept behind what was happening in it and uh the timelines of how they handled it, yeah. That's I mean, there's such good writers out there. Uh especially now I think with streaming blowing up, they've really been able to showcase because they they've had to have a lot of content, which means there's a lot of junk out there. Obviously, there's a lot of you have to navigate through. But for so many years, you know, you just had the big networks and then they started having, you know, cable and they had cable options. But now with streaming, there's just so much ability to put shows out. They have to, they have to have a lot of content. So really the the gems shine when it comes to the writing.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Yeah. And you again, and and I you and I have had conversations over the years of just about uh what people look at with success, but also the commitment and the time and the you know, the it's the it's the the um what's the not glacier, but the uh you know, when you see um an ice glacier, right, floating in the ocean, all you see is the top of it.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

You see the tip of it, yeah, basically. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Versus everything underneath the surface. And most people when they see success or when whatever that is for different people, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:30

Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

But most people aren't willing to do what it took for the person to get there. Correct. They want what they have, but and most people are not willing to pay the price to get what someone else had. I mean, the the um even the Beatles, right? You know, you know, the the the years of playing in just these you know dirty pubs for nothing, you know, for years before they took off. The other you can talk about other musicians that have done that.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

I mean, I was gonna say, I I'm friends with the band Shinedown. I know I know several of the members. My son was just down with one of the guys at his studio this last week, and their success that's happened, it wasn't overnight. And I think the last tour they did, they finally started headlining. So for years, they were always, you know, playing right before the main act, or they might be the third act, you know, that was getting ready to play. So it's it it's a long haul for anyone. There there's always those kind of shot in the dark, something strange happens or someone makes it. But it normally fizzes out. It's not it's not sustainable normally.

Craft, Streaming, And Better Writing

SPEAKER_01 16:35

But even the ones that you say, oh, they but it's the the years of like practice and and fine-tuning their I mean maybe somebody gets their break, but it's the it's it's the it's the quote you know, you and I have it's the stone cutter quote. We've talked about this, but when nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. It's the it's the it's when it's the hundredth and first blow that splits it in two, and I know that it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before it. Again, whether whatever someone's working towards, right? Right. You're a musician, you're a writer, you're a small business owner, it's the it's and I think that's again, I I'm so grateful you to come on the radio and and and want to encourage our listeners, you know, is Amazon the best place? I mean, where do you recommend? How about directly to your website? I mean, people can order your books.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

I mean Yeah, I'll I offer them for sale on my website. Um easiest way to do it, and obviously the best deal for the consumer is Amazon. And I know people definitely have their issues with Amazon, and I get it. From an author's perspective, though, you can offer it at normally the lowest price and also make something off it. That's that's the hard line to say of how much you're gonna charge for a book. And it depends. If you're with a traditional publisher, you have zero say in that. Right. And your cut is extremely small. I learned that with my first book deal of you get pennies on the dollar and you wrote the book. Um now that I have my own indie press, completely different stories. Independent press. Yes, independent press. Um completely different story, but you also then control all sides of it. So you have all the expenses on you. Um you know, you have to really crunch the numbers of what makes sense for pricing a book. Um and there is price points for certain, you know, for an ebook, for a paperback, for a hardcover. It's the business side. So I got in this to write, not learn the business side. But even nowadays, if you sign with a major publisher, you've got to learn the business side of it. You and and they expect you to be why I'm here talking about the book, they expend you expect you to mark it. So if I was, you know, through Atria, through a large press, um, Emily Bessler Brooks, who does like, you know, Jack Carr, Brad Thor, um, you don't just write a book, submit it to them, and be like, hey, I'm done. No, Jack Carr, Brad Thor, they're out there hustling. They have to. It's part of the deal. Um, they have to do podcasts and interviews and go to go to signings and all that. That's kind of part of the deal.

Success Myths And The Long Grind

SPEAKER_01 19:07

With with any with any skill or or talent or practice, it's one thing to be you could be the most talented musician in the world, but if no one knows about you, you could be the most talented uh you know writer in the world. But again, it's it and uh the story of Vincent Van Gogh. He was the one that you know, by the way, it was not until his his brother's wife promoted after his passing, by the way, no one would have known about his art unless someone took his art. And by the way, it was his story, it was his writings that ended up making his art what it is today. She published a book of his of his writings, which then was this uh profound, you know, just again, the in how the his painting. Paintings end up becoming what they were, right? So again, if you whether you're a musician, a writer, uh you know, and and this also applies to even small business. You you could be the best real estate agent in the world, but if you're the the first job is, you know, promoting and marketing and and all those components of it too.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

So I mean you and so it comes with the territory, especially now for books. I mean, and for other forms of art as well, but for books now, yeah, the pressures a lot of pressure is put on the authors, no matter whether they're traditionally published or independently published. Uh there's a lot of pressure put on. So you've got to be you have to be out there. You have to be out there, but you also have to be willing to try different mediums. You know, you you might have to create a TikTok account, you know, you gotta get on social media, which I think is losing some of its luster the last several years, but still you you have to find a way to promote your books for sure.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

Well, and I I can speak from experience. I know radio works and and grateful to have you on the radio for our local listeners, and again, you're you're local here and and for our listeners to be able to to pick up any one of your series, and you and as you said, it listeners can go to Amazon and they can find all of the books. But just recently, just Tuesday, was released uh the Drexel book.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

Yep, Drexel came out, um, Drexel came out Tuesday. And actually for for local people here too, the third book in the Body Man series, which came out last summer, Supreme Justice, um there's an incident that takes place up at the Grove Park Inn. Well, it starts with the murder. Um, and the person that commits that murder actually is down here. Uh she's actually not as terrible as she might sound, but she's actually down here hanging out Hendersonville for a little bit. So any um a lot of the several of my favorite local businesses on Main Street got uh she she visited. Okay so got some cameos for Hendersonville. It's the first time I've actually written about a place I lived in, like and put in some actual businesses that I frequented, which was a fun little twist this summer to do.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

That is so fun. And I know you're an international traveler as well, and sometimes you in your travels you've used uh some of the locations you've been at and uh in your books.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

I was in Barcelona back in September, so uh the next um uh next book for the body man series Downfall will have a little bit of action happening in Tosa de Mar, which is uh coastal city on the Mediterranean, which I walked every footstep that you'll read about. And I uh although no kidnapping took place while I was there, I was thinking about a kidnapping taking place and hoping it wasn't me.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

So what a riot. Again, it just brings in what was the term you used? F uh faction faction, yeah. Faction where you have basically real life places and and and especially in the political thriller world, I mean like some of these things aren't beyond happening.

Publishing Economics And Indie Control

SPEAKER_03 22:42

When you can take a president of another country and not lose a single person and uh a team go in there and do that, it it kind of makes my job a little harder because well, just what's happened even since COVID and in the in the last five, six years, things around the world that have happened. If you had proposed some of those things ten years ago, a publisher would have been like, or an agent would have been like, no way, no way, people aren't going to believe that. So it's challenging now to think of where do you go next because you can't make it too ridiculous, and maybe you maybe you really can't make it too ridiculous because it can happen. Which is weird. What a world we live in. We live in an interesting time. But we live in a great time. You know, I mean that's true too. The technology is a double-edged sword. It's wonderful because of the communication and the abilities, you know, what what you can do, book flights and all the things you can just do from a phone. But on the flip side is now people are addicted to their phones and they're not interacting like we are right now as much. And so we we that's kind of the downside of the technology that we have to hopefully get a handle on.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Well, let's let's let's go down a rabbit trail real quickly. It's interesting. I mean, you are these are your words, these are your written books, and I mean with with AI coming into play, I mean again, there I know uh doctors that I know that read these medical journey journals where at the bottom of the articles they're saying was not produced with AI.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

Correct, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

That's and I think Amazon, even when people are publishing books, that's part of the process now. Is this an AI book? I mean, like again, they are distinguishing in with books being published.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Amazon asks it now. I actually Drexel is the first book that on my copyright page I actually did put in the language that basically says, you do not have permission to use my book for AI modeling for language or anything like that. This is my intellectual property. You may not touch it. Um, because that's something that's happened, and they've they there's lawsuits going on now currently globally, because they just got tons and tons, tens of thousands, maybe um hundreds of thousands of books, uploaded them into AI to learn language, and those authors got not the publishers got zero for it at the time. Right, without permission. Correct, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

And and um people want to know people love the fact that it's it was human generated. I can't believe I haven't to say this out loud right now, right? Versus AI generated.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

I know.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

There was even, and I I'm digressing, but the uh some of the uh billboard songs uh in some categories right now, some of the top songs in some of the billboard categories are AI generated, and and I've shared that with people and they're like, no, and then they go look and it's like wow, these songs are artificially intelligent generated.

Marketing The Modern Author

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Joe Rogan, uh, I listened to his podcast and he he's talked about this for a while now, and he he's kind of mentioned a few songs, and I've gone and just not downloaded them but found them on YouTube or whatever and played them. And there's some that you just play you listen to them and you're like, how could that be just digitally created with no no one recording it? It's all done, you know, through this AI functionality. And I mean they hit hard. They're not like, oh, that's that sounds like a fake song. It's like, no, that sounds like someone that probably would fill arenas and is amazing and it's AI, it's not real, which again opens up a whole can of worms.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

That's another conversation. You almost wonder, especially with uh with social media, you almost it's you would think I don't know, that I've heard people say, well, they should start putting watermarks on anything you know generated uh with AI, and you know, just again, because it can be very confusing for the public and what's real or not real.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

AI might be smart enough to fake that watermark or do something. That's the I think that's the the part that it's like, how far will it go? And I you know, I'm one of the ones that jokes with it about, you know, when the when the T one thousand, when the Terminator starts coming true and they're you know they're they're they're they're they're coming through the streets or flying through the air after you, then we might be like, you know, we should have watched that James Cameron movie one more time and took it seriously.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

Uh it it it's it's definitely the topic that is is in the headlines and what how AI is gonna impact. I I will say one more thing in that regard. I I've heard AI compared to nuclear, where as nuclear can be incredibly beneficial, it can power complete complete cities with power, and the the danger that nuclear presents. So it's both incredibly it can be incredibly helpful to humanity, and it's incredibly dangerous. And I think that that's the best uh you know perspective I've heard on AI. It can be incredibly helpful.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

And on the other side of the coin, it can be incredibly dangerous. So again, it's to be determined how this how that plays out, you know, in in in our world.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

In our world, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

Uh local author, six books now published. Six books out. Uh who who knows how many books you've totally I mean, again, you said you've you've started hundreds of different books.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

Yeah, I've got two or three other finished ones. So I'm over I'm probably over ten of completed, but not all those will see the light of day.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

So again, what would you say to a a potential writer or somebody that's just what would you say to someone that that's uh wanting to write or has talked about writing?

Local Cameos And Global Settings

SPEAKER_03 27:54

I would tell them to do it. I would tell, give it a try, at least complete a first draft, just for yourself, just for the sense of completion. You might have written something that is going to find a life and have millions of people read it. Who knows? Or you might have written something that you'll read through and you'll be like, wow, that was terrible. That's okay. That was still an accomplishment. So whether you finish it and nothing happens with it, or whether you finish it and you get that million-dollar book deal, which still does occur out there, um, go for it. Make an attempt, try it. Life's too short. If it's something you have a passion for, try it. And you might realize you really like it or you really don't. And that's okay. Then that will direct your next actions.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Absolutely. Great, great advice. Eric, what's the best way for people to get uh connected with you? Uh you know, social media, websites.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

Uh yeah, if you type me into type me into Google, Eric P. Bishop, author, I'll come up. Um books like Drexel, best way to go is probably Amazon. You can get the ebook, paperback, or hardcover. You can get that today. Um, or if you can go to my website, ericpbishop.com. I've got a link to everything, my bio, and even pictures of my fun adventures I've had in life so far.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Absolutely. Eric, so grateful to have you with us. And uh the the book's beautiful, and I I know you're proud to have that uh released uh this week.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Absolutely. It's an it's it's an honor to have it out. It's a it's a blessing to get to do this.

Raising The Stakes In Today’s World

Sponsor Message And Final Thanks

SPEAKER_01 29:16

It is awesome. Well, so grateful to have you on and congratulations, and here's the many more, and uh we'll do it again. Absolutely, for sure. So grateful to have you. And to our listeners, again, uh I love these conversations, and I love our guests, and uh you know, to different you know, conversations about life, conversations about accomplishments, and and you know, sharing and promoting our friends that have uh, you know, for example, the Drexel, uh you can get it on Amazon and again thankful for Eric uh P Bishop joining us this morning on the radio. And and we love serving our community through real estate. And if you're thinking of buying or selling or investing in real estate or a career in real estate, we love to have the conversation. We just we uh it we are walking alongside with our clients, navigating through life, real estate happens, therefore life happens, life happens, real estate happens. I mean, it's just interchangeable, and the market's the market, the interest rates are the interest rates, but we'd love to connect with you. You can give us a call at 828-393-0134. 828-393-0134. Thank you so much for tuning in this morning. Have a wonderful day, have a wonderful week, and we'll see you next week. The stairs, a little steeper, the pace of life a little too fast. But what if your next move wasn't about letting go? It was about making space for peace, for freedom, for what matters most. At the George Real Estate Group, we understand that real estate isn't just about the house. It's about transitions, timing, and trust. We've helped thousands of families in Western North Carolina make smart, thoughtful moves closer to nature, closer to family, closer to home. So when you're ready to right-size, simplify, or start fresh, we'll be here. The George Real Estate Group. Local, trusted, proven. Call us today, 828-393-0134. Find us online at realestatebygreg.com because your next chapter deserves to feel just right.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Thank you for listening to the George Real Estate Group Podcast. Tune in next time for more industry news, updates, and real estate tips. You can reach Greg, the George Real Estate Group, at 828 393 0134 or at realestatebygreg.com.